Building an Authoritarian Polity: Russia in Post-Soviet Times

ISBN-13: 9781107130081 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 238 str.

Graeme Gill

Opis

Argues that post-Soviet Russia was never on a democratic trajectory because dominant elites always fostered the building of an authoritarian polity.

Recenzje

'Graeme Gill has written a concise, readable, yet remarkably detailed account of the construction of contemporary Russia's particular brand of authoritarianism, the linchpin of which is its charismatic and powerful president. Gill explains contemporary Russia not as the result of failed democratization, but as the result of elite-driven state-building in the absence of an ideological template with which to coordinate competing interests and centers of power in Russia's massive federal system.' Josephine T. Andrews, Slavic Review

Spis treści

1. Stability and authoritarian regimes; Part I. Structuring Public Political Activity: 2. Regime and society; 3. The party system and electoral politics; Part II. Structuring the Regime: 4. Structuring institutional power; 5. Elite stabilization; Conclusion: the Putin system and the potential for regime change.